CHAT: Not Politics (was: CHAT: India--Pakistan Nuclear War?)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 2, 2002, 2:40 |
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On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 05:47, J Y S Czhang wrote:
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> _Om mani padme hum_ = somewhat literally: "hail to the jewel in the
> lotus!" or "oh, the jewel is in the lotus!"...
> more meaningfully it can be understood as "Om, the jewel of enlightenment
> consciousness arises within the lotus of ordinary (but trained)
> consciousness!"
'Padme' doesn't happen to mean 'jewel', does it? And does it derive from
a certain Star Wars character? (I've assumed that's a conlang there.)
Tristan
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